Golf bag carrying handle



- Jul 26,1949. HOTZE 2,477,251

GOLF BAG CARRYING HANDLE Filed July 4; 1946 zg am if 7 0 6 9 BY y zwPatented July 26, 949

, GOLF BAG CARRYING HANDLE Albert Hotze, St. Louis, Mo., assignor toHenry Hotze & Sons Company, a corporation of Missouri Application July4, 1945, Serial No. 603,229 2 Claims. (01. 150-15) This inventionrelates to new and useful improvements in a golf bag and is a furtheringof the structure disclosed in Hotze U. S. LettersPatent No. 2,006,920,the instant application, however, pertaining more particularly to aspecific manner of securing the carrying handle to the reinforcingstructure and/or the bag wall.

Another object of the invention is to provide a carrying handle of animproved construction for a golf bag.

A further object is to provide a golf bag carrying handle of a contourwhich when grasped in carrying the bag, will sustain the bag-mouththereof in an upwardly inclined position.

I Still another object is to provide a golf bag carrying handle of aformation whereby the user or carrier of the bag, upon gripping thehandle, is instinctively directed to grasp the handle at a specific partthereof.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, my invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in thedetails of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes may be madewithin the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary longitudinal section taken through a golf bagwith the improved carrying handle secured'to the reinforcing structureon the bag.

Figure 2 is a plan elevation of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of a golf bag shown on a reduced scale toillustrate a carrying fault which is overcome by the application and useof the carrying handle of this invention.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing, 4. indicates aportion of a golf bag having a wall 5 and the bag-mouth 6. Secured tothe wall 5 in a desirable manner is a reinforcing structure 1 of anapproximate Y-shape, having the leg 8 thereof extending to the bag-mouth6 and the branches 9 partially encircling the wall 5 of the bag.

A carrying handle I is preferably made of leather layers H and i2 whichare stitched together at the hand-gripping part i3, and secured to theleg 8 of the reinforcing structure 1 by a rivet I4, the layers II and I2rearwardly of the part l3 of the handle and from the rivet l beingspread apart, the extending end of the layer ll being secured to the leg8 by a, rivet l6 and 2 the extending end of the layer l2 being securedto the D-link l1.

Secured to and extending from the D-link I! are a pair. of branch strapsl8 having their extending endssecured by rivets iii to the ends of therespective branches 9 of the reinforcing structure I.

The layer I2 of the handle l0 may be subdivided to provide an extendinglayer 20 for securing the layer l2 to the D-link l1 and the buckle 2| towhich one end of the shoulder strap 22 is adjustably secured, the otherend of the strap being secured to the bag mouth and/or extending end ofthe leg 8 of the reinforcing structure 1 by the D-link 23.

In carrying a loaded golf bag by using either the shoulder strap 22 orthe handle ill, the usual approximate carrying position is that as shownin Fig. 1 in which the bag is inclined from the horizontal. However, itquite frequently happens that the carrier when sustaining the bag by thehandle [0 will grasp the lower part of the handle thereby distorting itsshape from that indicated in dotted lines A to that in full lines B inFig. 3.

In the position shown in Fig. 3 the carrying strains from the handle tothe bag will be diverted rearwardly toward the longitudinal center ofthe bag lengths, thereby occasioning the bag to assume an approximatehorizontal carrying position, which position is accentuated by reason ofthe heavy heads of the playing clubs being disposed at the mouth end ofthe bag.

When the golf bag is carried in the approximate horizontal position asindicated in Fig. 3 obviously the jogging of the bag brought about bywalking of the carrier, will tend to cause the clubs to slide from thebag mouth, and this fault is therefore overcome by the application anduse of the handle ill of the character herein disclosed, because of thedefined hand-gripping part l3 which is permanently maintained in a fixedcontour for instinctive grasping, since the layer ll of the handle isfixed to the leg 8 of the reinforcing structure I.

With the extending end of the outer layer l2 of the handle I0 beingconnected to the D-link ll of the branch straps I8, lifting strains willbe carried to the branches9 of the reinforcing structure I, and as thehandle [0 is also connected to the structure I by the rivets l4 and IS,the carrying strains from the shoulder strap 22 and the handle II! aredistributed in the manner intended by the invention of Patent No.2,006,920 aforesaid.

Having thus described the invention so that those skilled in the artwill be able to practice the same, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent is defined in what is claimed, it being understood that variouschanges in the device shown and described in detail and not amounting toinvention, may be made without departing from the spiritya-nd scopeof my invention.

What 'Ielaim is:

1. A golf bag having longitudinally disposed reinforcing structuresecured to the bag wall and extending from the mouth thereof ltoeaidistance intermediate the bag length, said reinforcing structurecomprising a body portion having ,a pair of branches which extend-aroundtheigirth of the bag wall, and a carrying handle having an end part andan intermediate part=secureda tolthe body portion of said reinforcingstructure, said carrying handle having an extending part with a free endwhich is indirectly secured to the respective branches of saidlreinforcing structure.

2. A golf bag having longitudinally disposed reinforcing structuresecured tozthe bag Wall and extending from the mouth thereof toadistance intermediate the bag :length, said vreinforcing structurecomprising a body portion having a pair of branches which extend aroundthe girth of the bag Wall, and a carrying handle having an end part andan intermediate part secured to the body portion of said reinforcingstructure and an extending part with a free end, and a pair of branchstraps each being secured at one end to arrespective branch of,said.reinforcing structure and-ahtheir other endsto=the freeend of theextending part of said handle.

ALBERT HOTZE.

'REFERENGES CITED "fhefollowing reierenlces are of record in the file ofthis patent:

, STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 15109215 Pierce Sept. 30, 19241,727,578 Wengard Sept. 10, 1929 1 ,936,021 Hutchinson Nov. 21, 1933-2,006,920 Hotze July'2, I9-35 230063921 ictze 'Juiy'Z, 1935 "236L935Roberts June 13,1939 22949684 Gihon-etal 'Aug. 25, 1942

